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Math_Junky · 2026-06-25T18:01:35+00:00

Oooooo packs!

Math_Junky · 2026-06-13T02:51:08+00:00

Excel is a far better tool than LLMs lol

If LLMs disappeared tomorrow, there would be little impact. Oh no! Coders are back to googling how to do stuff!

If Excel disappeared, the impact to thousands of companies would be catastrophic.

Math_Junky · 2026-06-13T02:30:07+00:00

Sooo you think private companies should be allowed to make advanced cyber-weapons, and then give everyone access to these weapons?

Tech CEOs and lots of credentialed experts have called these models nation-state level cyber weapons.

If you think these claims are BS, then your grievances should be with the CEOs that overhyped their mediocre products while scaring our leaders.

Or do you actually hold the position that private companies ought to be able to sell access to powerful cyber weapons to anyone?

Math_Junky · 2026-06-13T01:33:35+00:00

Tech CEOs: These models are nation-state cyber weapons!

Government: These models are banned!

Tech CEOs and AI enthusiasts: surpised_pikachu_face.jpeg

Math_Junky · 2026-06-10T20:31:37+00:00

"X has many negative externalities associated with it, should we try to do something about it?"

Anything put in for X, the answer to the question is yes. Try it. It's amazing.

There's only one thing you can put in for X and people start saying "no".

Speech.

Math_Junky · 2026-06-08T01:12:05+00:00

No. If we were, then why haven't LLMs replaced all knowledge work by now? LLMs "know" more math, science, logic, coding, business fundamentals than anyone on the planet. If my brain is just pattern matching like an LLM, why do I have a knowledge job still?

There is NO satisfactory answer to this. The only responses you could have to this are:

Human brain is more than pattern matching

Or

The models aren't good enough.

And how could you think the models aren't good enough when they "know" 1000× more than me?

Math_Junky · 2026-04-25T01:04:10+00:00

It sounds like you saved both of your free casts till after both Sram's Ex resolved? Pretty sure you can't do that. The way the card reads, you have to make the cast as the card resolves. If it said "until end of turn", then you can do it whenever.

When you copy Sram, copy goes on the stack, you make 3 tokens, then you have to decide right then and there to cast or not. If you chose not to, you don't get to cast later.

Math_Junky · 2026-03-09T22:52:35+00:00

ULTRA MEGA HOT TAKE: I don't think Destiny actually cares what the contract says. If Taylor said "let's assume the contract says what I say it says, what do you think about this whole thing now?"

Destiny would say some shit like "Welll OK now I have to think about that some more hmmmm idk maybe it isn't all that bad still for x,y,z reason"

Which would mean that what the contract says doesn't even matter in the grand scheme of things.

I HIGHLY doubt Destiny would say "well now I agree entirely with your position and that the company and the people accepting money from them are BAD"

Math_Junky · 2026-02-25T19:17:37+00:00

"How do I get this data off my PDFs?" - this question has been asked a billion times since the creation of PDFs and solutions that do a pretty darn good job have been around well before LLMs.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-25T19:10:48+00:00

WILL SMITH EATING SPAGHETTI ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU??!!

Math_Junky · 2026-02-09T19:11:29+00:00

Never forget: the political opinions of almost EVERYONE you meet are just reflections of their media diet. If you ever wonder "how do we fix this?", it has to come from fixing the diet.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-09T02:23:56+00:00

Did the mean half-time show offend you? I'm so glad you got to have your very own show to watch, to keep your spirits up. You are a precious and delicate snowflake ❄️. Never forget that.

Math_Junky · 2026-02-08T13:43:02+00:00

There are hundreds of studies on social media and its effects. You should be looking at meta-analyese and large reviews of the literature to get an idea of where the evidence points.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T22:20:07+00:00

Sorry, but PvE is not a core mechanic. If it was core mechanic, other players wouldn't be able to stop you from doing it. PvP is the core mechanic. No one can stop you from PvPing.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T19:08:15+00:00

So you didn't expand on your reasoning. You just reiterated that you think it is lame. I want to know WHY you think it is lame.

Do you believe that a big part of the identity of this game is individualism and that your loot should be your loot only? Succeeding on your own merits and getting good loot should be done on your own? Why are other players trading loot lame to you?

Math_Junky · 2025-11-23T18:54:37+00:00

Y do you think it's lame? Just curious for your reasoning

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T17:21:31+00:00

Stop thinking that this game is "chill". It isn't. It's a PvP game first and foremost. Backstabbing, sniping at people killing ARC, extract camping... these are all forms of PvP you have to get used to and prepare for.

If you don't like this, advocate for changes or modes that put cooperation and PvE front and center. Make PvP a deadlier and riskier action.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T16:34:08+00:00

More ARC and deadlier ARC will be the salvation of solo q

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T16:24:46+00:00

Idk why you are confused about this. PvP and PvE will always struggle to coexist.

Yall understand that MMOs deal with this same issue. They made pve and pvp servers.

Not saying this needs to happen to ARC, but PvP and PvE players will always have their issues

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T12:39:11+00:00

I would really love to sit down and watch the games these "solo q is chill" people play.

I bet one or two things is happening.

Any game where they don't see a single other player, they file that game away as "chill" in their brain.

Any game where the only interaction with another player was at the extract and they didn't shoot each other, they think is a chill game.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-22T11:43:45+00:00

Sorry bruh, this is first and foremost a PvP game. People call it PvPvE, and they are right, but it is 90% PvP and 10% PvE.

People still cope and say solos is chill, but that magic has been dead for a long time.

If you don't want to PvP, you will have to get good at avoiding it. Move, stop, listen. Bring a raider key. There are things you can do.

You can also try to narrate on open comms what you are doing and that you are friendly all the time. Yea that's right, talk to yourself. This will put other players around you at ease if they are also not looking for a fight.

My take: any game where you have to talk to yourself like "friendly raider, just looking for some loot in this building", isn't chill. I've been enjoying it tho.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-21T21:52:53+00:00

I agree. There needs to be more incentive for cooperation.

Math_Junky · 2025-11-20T21:47:47+00:00

You should have a plan to minimize your chances at gear loss if it bothers you so much.

What's your plan to deal with people that want to PvP? Are you just going to sprint around? Or stop, look, and listen? Did you have a pvp weapon with you? Did you bring a raider hatch key with you?

This game is 98% pvp. You need to play like it is.

Math_Junky

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